Saturday, December 05, 2009

Another one of those hidden-but-serves-good-food entry here. Only discovered this place a couple of weeks ago thanks to my wife and Uncle Jerry. On a typical Sunday afternoon, i would've said NO by default for lunch in an open area without air condition. This, however was rather recent and with all the rain you could ask for the entire 2009, the weekends have been pretty cloudy and cool. This place is located along Jln Ipoh, somewhat behind the old Low Yat Building. I'll try to direct you guys there in plain and simple English at the end of this post, but first let's see what this place is famous for.

1) Fish Head Mee Hoon - This one was served with tangy and fresh fish balls, fish paste, bean curd skins, yam pieces and deep fried fish - the main element behind this dish. Gladly, the noodles used were the thick ones, my favourite. The soup was pretty good, sour and milky though i'd prefer a lil' more milk to thicken it.

2) Stir Fried "Pak Kor" or "Nin Kou" with dried shrimps - Quite good, but at times the Pak Kor is a tad too chewy to my liking. Ingredients are first class - fresh prawns with sweet & juicy cabbage.

3) Thai style Tofu - I guess you can get this dish and almost any restaurant but the tofu here is fresh, fried to perfection, topped with freshly minced groundnuts and the usual sweet Thai chili sauce.3) Stir Fried Pan Mee - much better than the one in Old Klang Road behind Pearl Point. Texture is precisely the way i like it, neither soft nor hard on the extreme ends and is tastes pretty good, although it's uncanningly similar to the Fried Pak Kor. Choose either one unless you have a group of no less than 5 per table.4) Longan and Loh Huon Kor... forgive my Canto translation, I believe you know what this is.. Chances are they boil this themselves and it's not overly sweet. So you need not order the "kurang manis" version.To get here, get on to the Bulatan Segambut from KL, take the 3 o'clock turn and head straight past the Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant / Jln Ipoh Yong Tau Foo bungalow.

As the road turns left, take the immediate right, to make a U-turn. Keep right and upon seeing the first set of traffic lights, turn right whereby the old Low Yat Building is on your right.

Head in for 50 metres or so and lookout for Jalan Mangga on your right, of which you'll see a sign that leads you to a temple. Once you turned right, you'll see the restaurant on your right and a huge temple on your left.

I like this place, the food's good and the view is pretty nice, with some landscapes done by the temple on both sides of the road, with a river like drain running through it with no nasty views thus far.